Slevin Kalevra

Tweets are my own stream of semi-consciousness

[Rav Shlomo Katz @shlomokatz]

So often we hear people speaking in the name of God, saying words of Torah or quoting sources. They are, so to speak, representing the word of God.

But somehow you walk out of it feeling smaller. You feel more limited. You get the impression that God is a very narrow-minded ruler.

And sometimes you hear people speak in the name of the Torah, in the name of God, and suddenly God seems like the most infinite, larger-than-life entity. And all you want to do is get more of that.

In Parashat Haazinu it says כי שם ה׳ אקרא, “when I call out in the name of God,” הבו גודל לאלוקינו, “we bring greatness to Hashem,” that Hashem is our God.

We are living in a generation where so many people, young, bright, authentic, real soul-searchers, are waiting for the day to hear about the word of God and feel that God has become bigger in their lives, more relevant, more encompassing. It's not only about being forgiven, but it's also about feeling that whatever I thought God was, He’s so much bigger and more inviting.

And thank God, we're seeing this.

We're seeing that there is a voice of teachers today, of holy influencers, that understand the calling of this generation. That when they speak in the name of God, they're not bringing katnut to the concept of God. They're bringing gadlut to the name of God.

So, as we usher in this new year, and as we approach the Shabbos between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, perhaps part of what we're doing teshuvah over is the question of: when I learned or taught Torah, did God become bigger to me or not?

And please God, may it be a year of when we speak of Godliness and of the תורה הקדושה, all we think of is a much, much larger umbrella than whatever our understanding was.

Have a beautiful Shabbos and a Gmar Chatima Tova.

[The Israel Link @TheIsraelink]

Report of a critically injured person following drone attack in northern Israel.

[Av Michal אביגיל מיכל @avygal]

I'm sorry for what happened to your family.

There is no turning back the clock to 1948 and living where your grandparents lived.

Jews accepted the UN partition plan. Arabs rejected the partition plan and said the whole land would remain Arab from the river to the sea. Five Arab nations attacked the newly formed Israel, which was from the United Nations to be formed alongside an Arab Palestine, and your side lost despite it being five nations against one small people.

Jews allowed all of the Arabs that didn't flee to stay on their lands and become citizens of Israel if they chose. Many chose not to be a citizen of a Jewish country and left at that time as well.

Nazareth is 99% Arab to this day.

The best you can hope for is to settle a couple dozen kilometers away in the West Bank.

Waging a war has consequences. Your side chose not to accept the United Nations partition plan.

It's not an "injustice" that has been done "to" your family.

Your grandfather made a choice at the time and it was the wrong one. Your side made a choice at the time to attack and it was the wrong one.

Israel is Israel now and forever and won't be "Palestine."

Your side needs to give that up and stop holding onto a key to your grandparent's home and focus on nation building the West Bank and Gaza and making peace with the Israelis rather than waging endless wars and losing over and over again and thinking you will win someday.

It's sad to watch your side continually make horrible choices.

Choose peace and normalization.
Choose nation building of your own nation.

The West Bank is ancient Judean land and has ancient Jewish archaeology and biblical history all through it.

Israel has offered the West Bank and Gaza to Palestinians as your own state several times now and your side continues to refuse and shout "from the river to the sea."

Things don't have to be the way they are.
Israel is done offering peace, especially after October 7.

If your side doesn't step up and make an offer of peace to Israel and your side continues to be stubborn as a mule then you won't have anything but occupation of the West Bank and Hamas ruling Gaza and endless war.

Olmert offered AGAIN in 2008 despite Hamas taking over Gaza. Abbas refused to even begin to negotiate.

Take accountability for the grave mistakes on your own side and stop being perpetual victims that have no agency. It's not working. It's getting your side nowhere.

Jews built an amazing and free country where Jews and Arabs have equal rights within it's borders. Jews have shown we are willing to live peacefully with any Arab that wants peace: from Arab Israeli citizens to Egypt and Jordan, UAE, Saudia Arabia....you name it. If Arabs want peace, Israel accepts and lives in peace.

Until your side understands this and stops trying to destroy Israel you will be contained as a security threat.

Why would Israel do anything other than try to contain your people as a threat when they continue to vow to destroy Israel? Do you think Jews will just willingly lay down and die and hand over the state we worked so hard to build on our ancestral homeland?

We spent years in exile longing to return to our land. We were exiled to other parts of the world and not even on our land a few kilometers away. Your people still live a few kilometers from where their grandparents lived. On the land between the river and the sea.

And if you're anywhere else, that's a choice. You could be living in the West Bank and nation building and forming peace movements.

Israel has had gigantic peace movements this entire time. Meanwhile Palestinians have less than 10 people total that are peace activists and they nearly all live outside of the West Bank and Gaza.

The culture there is to call anyone that wants peace a "collaborator" and to literally kill them, or if you are lucky jail and torture them until they conform.

Focus on changing your own culture.

Until your side very loudly declares they want peace with Israel and normalization and forms new political parties that are focused on peace and nation building, rather than destroying Israel, you will be stateless.

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

@Osint613 It means Iran is saying uncle

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

@Templarpilled When you say “the Bible isn’t a book of myths”, you must be referring to the (Jewish) Hebrew bible. The Christian one, on the other hand…
😜

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

@DBashIdeas Strongly agree. It’s demeaning

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

The meaning of Purim in 2025 https://t.co/tmDtkc4TI5

[Dan Senor @dansenor]

As @SethAMandel wrote: “….it is impossible for the rest of us to pretend that we didn’t see a chunk of society, whether in person or online, rush to cross that line and cheer the people who kidnapped a baby.”
(Pls read Seth’s piece in its entirety: https://t.co/RcAttsTz8x)

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

https://t.co/HFyQ9y62fL

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

@FarroYossi @davidmdraiman Has the video of Sound of Silence at the Nova site been released yet?
I can't seem to find it

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

@endimem_music 💯 there’s little that’s more infuriating than being called tzadik when you’re an adult.

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

I just registered for the Bike4Chai! You can help us raise 13m. Together we can make a difference! https://t.co/At2PPPdrs2

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

@andrew782417 @endimem_music This is such a great summation of what I’ve been thinking for a long time but couldn’t articulate

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

@jpodhoretz At some point in the last year or so, you mentioned Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama by David J. Garrow, do you remember which episode that was? I want to give a listen again. TIA

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

@jpodhoretz It’s a pizza place, but same difference

[Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK]

When Kamala Harris loses Pennsylvania, and the election, it will be in part because she refused to pick the state’s popular governor as VP for being too Jewish and too pro-Israel. She caved to the mob and no one deserves to lose more than her. Stop taking us for granted!

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

If Trump wins, the Biden presidency created his revival when Jon Meacham convinced him he could be LBJ and spend $6 trillion and create a massive inflationary effect while he convinced himself he could be the Great Peacemaker in Afghanistan. That's it. That's the whole story.

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

Meanwhile, the first guest has arrived at the annual Queers for Palestine meeting.

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

CBS journalist @tonydokoupil did his job by asking tough questions. That’s when the trouble began.

Scoop (with audio recordings) of the fracas @CBSNews @CBSMornings in @TheFP:

https://t.co/YJhs9PZ0Nl

[Slevin Kalevra @menperl]

@endimem_music This is genius on multiple levels